You know, if you put your hands together and rub them, very quickly there's going to be heat. It's much like that in a church. There will be times of heat in a church and it will not be spiritual. It can be very fleshly. And so there can be damage done if we're not careful.

Churches, the church leadership and the church as a whole can do damage to families. When, again it goes back to those jurisdictional issues, when the church steps into a jurisdictional issue and does not deal with the family in a patient and loving way. God called men to be elders but they did not call them to be the fathers of every family within that church. There are jurisdictional issues that a husband and a wife need to make for their family. There can be a danger there if there's an elder or a pastor who has an authority complex.

He will become almost like that unbiblical patriarch who wants to rule with an iron fist and again just like a wife and children would suffer under that type of leadership, the church families will suffer under that type of leadership as well. So churches need to realize that the church is made up of sinful people, just like the leadership is made up of sinful people. And so there needs to be love and forgiveness. And we need to realize, just like when Maybe it's a young believer and they have some differing views. Maybe they're new to the church.

As leaders of a church or a church in general, they need to understand that just like bringing a child along in a family, you need to deal with that child in such a way there's only so much that child's going to know and that child is going to be growing in sanctification. It's going to be just like it's growing physically. We need to understand that families are going to be growing in sanctification. So I think patience with with maybe immature believers or patients with young believers or maybe new families into that church. So patience and love and forgiveness.